GROWING KINGDOM SEEDS

A Parable about Growing Seeds

“The Kingdom of God is like
a man who scatters seeds on the ground. 
He sleeps
and gets up night and day
while the seeds sprout and grow
although he doesn’t know how
the ground produces grain by itself
first the stalk
then the head
then the full grain in the head. 

But when the grain is ripe
he immediately starts cutting
with his sickle
because the harvest time has come.”

(Gospel of Mark 4:26-29)

“How can we show what the kingdom of God is like, or what parable can we use to describe it? It’s like a mustard seed planted in the ground. Although it’s the smallest of all the seeds on earth, when it’s planted it comes up and becomes larger than all the garden plants. It grows such large branches that the birds in the sky can nest in its shade.” Jesus